Re:The Case of the Extra 40ms
by marcan_42 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:06AM
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It isn't on Android, but as I said, Netflix isn't a real-time app, so Android's deficiencies in the low latency audio department should not concern them. They should just buffer more audio per wakeup.
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> as I said, Netflix isn't a real-time app
I honestly had a tough time parsing the sentence when you said that due to the triple negative, so it's possible that others might have misunderstood it.
Multiple negatives are common in some languages and absolutely do connote a distinct meaning from the simplified language.
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/15334/what-i...
Yep, I don't disagree! I think they can still be tough to parse in English though, even as a native speaker
That sentence was indeed a bit awkward, but I hope the meaning gets across since it wouldn't really make much sense the other way around, I think :-)
I'm not a native speaker and the sentence is honestly absolutely unparseable for me and reads like a contradiction. Is it even... correct?
I think it's grammatically correct, yes! But being grammatically correct isn't always the same as being easy to understand; some correct things can be hard to understand, and some incorrect things can be pretty easy to understand!